commons and instruction; supplies them in the public halls with coals and candles, during the studying hours. Each student pays 91. 2s. entrance money; provides himself with clothes, books, bedding, and chamber furniture; pays for washing, mending, and candle-light, for his room. This expence may be moderately estimated at 201. per annum. Each student before his admission must deliver to the president authentic certificates of his age, parentage, baptism, and of having taken the oath of allegiance, together with the recommendation of his prelates, He is then examined in the classics, and admitted, if approved by the major part of the examiners. "The following is the course of study pursued in the seminary HUMANITY, Under class, Latin and Greek, Sallust, Virgil and Horace, explained. Exercise; select passages from Goldsmith's Roman History, occasionally translated into Latin. Portions of the Greek Testament; Lucian and Xenophon construed and explained. BELLES LETTRES. Or first class of Greek and Latin. Greek, Gospel of St. Luke; Acts of the Apostles; Epistle of St. Paul; Homer; Epic, tetus; Xenophon, explained, &c. "LATIN. Cicero's Orations, Offices, Livy, part of Seneca, Pliny's Letters, Horace explained, &c. The rules of Latin versification, PHILOSOPHY. Logic, Metaphysics, Ethics. The professor obliged, from the paucity of books, to compile the Treatise, and dictate the same to his scholars. Books, Leguy's Philosophy; Locke. “NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY. Different branches of Elementary Mathematics; Algebra; Geometry; Conic Sections; Astronomy; Mechanics; Optics; Hydraulics; &c. Chemistry.ondalupeo o "DIVINITY. Divinity; First course, De Re ligione; Second, De Incarnatione et Ecclesia; Third, De Sacramentis in genere; De Eucharistia. The Professor obliged to compile Treatises on three subjects, chiefly from the following works: Hook, Bailly, Le Grand, Parisiis, 1774; Tourneley, N. Alexander, P. Collet, &c... He dictates, his "MORAL. First course De "Actibus' 'Humanis; De Conscientia; De Peccatis; De Matrimonja-Book; Paul Antoine, Second Course De Legibus; De Virtutibus Theol. et Moral; De Sacramento Pænitentia; Petrus; Collet. Third Course De Jura et Justitiâ; De Contractibus, De Obligatione Statuum; De Censuris, &c: Continuator Tournillii. "There is no regular professor at present of Sacred Scriptures; but a portion of the New Testament is committed to memory every week; the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, and the Epistles are explained from Domcalmet, Maldonatus, Esthius, the Synopsis Criticorum, and other Biblical expounders, sià moi & "MODERN LANGUAGES ENGLISH. Murray's Grammar; Usher's Elocution; Sheridan; Walker. "IRISH M'Curtin's Grammar; Irish Testament explained; Fragments translated into English. ne omo no good, JA golma FRENCH+Grammar, Fenelon, Massillon, &c. "The following is the establishment in regard to Professorships, as it stood in 18087 vi 106 0 0 logy A Professor of Logic. - dittoma ditto. ditto dittanc ditto ¡$50 0 9-dittapo 75 0 Salary, ditta A Lecturer of Dogmatic Theo not on Other advantages ditto A President's real salary 1151. 15s. remainder for casual expences. 1 Salary. Other advantages, da dito A Lecturer of Moral Theology 95 o A Professor of the Irish Language 75 0 0 commons as above ongo 79 12 6 56 $17 none Sifice writing this chapter, a great event has occurred in favour of national education in Ire land, a society for promoting this purpose has been formed, as will appear from the following documentodiw bus wow abobit. bongoba ovady who SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE EDUCATION OF took out TAE FUOR OF IRELAND, YOU ap-god-foodbe o qu eb The education of the poor of Ireland, is a grand object, which every Irishman, anxious for the welfare and prosperity of his country, should have in view; as the basis on which its morals and true happiness can be secured. It is therefore, considered highly important, that schools should be opened, divested of all sectarian distinctions, in every part of the arrangement. "To forward this measure, a society has been formed and denominated, A Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor of Ireland Papers presented to the house of commons relating to the Royal College of St. Patrick, Maynooth; ordered to be printed 40th of March, and 6th of April, 1808. "All subscribers of not less than ten guineas, and a donation of one guinea annually, shall be considered members thereof. d "The affairs of the society are to be conducted by a committee of twenty-one members, to be annually selected, who shall report to a general meeting, to be held on the second Monday in May in each year. "The object of the Society being to promote the establishment, and facilitate the conducting of schools, wherein the poor of Ireland may be instructed in reading, writing, and arithmetic, in a cheap and expeditious way, and without sectarian distinctions, they have adopted the following plan of procedure. aur armed ona ay They will give information upon the subject of erecting and fitting up of school-houses upon a suitable plan; and so far as their funds will allow, they will contribute to the expence that may be incurred upon this head, by local associations. 4 They will assist in procuring properly qualified 'school-masters. They will furnish stationary, books, slates, and other articles necessary for schools, at reduced prices. "And they recommend the plan practised by Mr. Joseph Lancaster, giving a scriptural education, and combining therewith economy and method, as well adapted to meet the circumstances of the poor of Ireland. And they further recom |